Lookup problem

[arlene_fool]

I am working on a spreadsheet to track my companys accounts receivables, i want to it to age based on todays date, whereas before i just aged it all to the end of the month. i have created this formula

=LOOKUP(($D$5-F26),{1,30,61,91,0},{"Current","30-60","61-90","90+",""})

where D5 is =today() and F26 is the invoice date.

most of it works, except any invoices over 92days are blank, when they should say "90+"

 

[Barrie Davidson]

Try this:
=LOOKUP(($D$5-F26),{0,30,61,91},{"Current","30-60","61-90","90+"})

 

[arlene_fool]

i need the blank space though. we leave blank spaces between different customers. and i dont want it to tell me its "current" etc.

 

[Barrie Davidson]

i need the blank space though. we leave blank spaces between different customers. and i dont want it to tell me its "current" etc.

I don't understand your requirements....My formula will provide you the correct ageing description based on the invoice date being in F27 and the current date in D5. Can you clarify what you're looking for?

 

[arlene_fool]

actually i figured it out by mistake. if the date cell is left blank and you subtract it from todays date, it doesnt equal 0, it makes some big number, so when i changed that 0 to 1000, and it works now.

but thank you, now i just need to get the conditional formatting to work.

 

[lenze]

Just add this to Barrie's Formula

=IF(F26,LOOKUP(($D$5-F26),{0,30,61,91},{"Current","30-60","61-90","90+"}),"")

Also, why do you need $D$5? You could use

=IF(F26,LOOKUP((TODAY()-F26),{0,30,61,91},{"Current","30-60","61-90","90+"}),"")

lenze